Ironblood Southwest, 1895: From Salt Smuggler to Defender of the Nation

A sack of salt, a factory, and a war to defy fate and change the nation's destiny. In 1895, Lin Jingyun, a modern special forces medic, is reborn as the illegitimate son of a salt merchant in southern Yunnan. He builds a fortune with “Frostsalt” and blasts open a path through the chaotic age with German-made mountain guns. From the Black Well Saltworks to the National Protection War, from the steel furnace to the flames of war on the Yunnan-Burma border. He manufactures rifles, develops trucks, builds universities, and smelts steel, single-handedly creating China's only backbone of military industry. In 1931, when the Northeast falls to the enemy, he leads his troops eastward: “If the Japanese want to destroy our Chinese homeland, they'll have to march over my iron army in the southwest first!” The meat grinder of Xuefeng Mountain, battles in the forests of northern Burma, the bloody flag rendezvous at Mangyou... He crushes violence with industry and reforges the land with iron and blood. This is a bloody journey from salt smuggler to god of war, and the lone-wolf legend of a reborn man turning the nation's fate around.